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CEO Moves this week include:
|Anthem, Inc.
|SGD Holdings, Ltd.
|Cardinal Health
|Sunoco LP
|Hoag Orthopedic Institute
|West Corporation
|Tampa Electric
|Morilee by Madeline Gardner
|Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.
|EP Energy Corporation
|American International Group, Inc.
|FULLBEAUTY Brands Inc.
|SMART Global Holdings, Inc.
|DelMar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|OncoSec Medical Incorporated
|EQIS Capital Management
|Five9, Inc.
|Russel Metals Inc.
|The Global Fund for Children
|Sunverge Energy
|AdvantAge Ontario
|Immunomedics, Inc.
|SunCoke Energy Partners, GP, LLC
|Corizon Health
|Ben Bridge Jeweler
|State Street Corporation
|Custom Disability Solutions
|Xplore Technologies
|Aquent and Vitamin T
|Panera Bread
|Molson Coors Brewing Company
|Northern Biologics Inc.
|FastMed Urgent Care
|MemberSuite, Inc.
|The Medical Device Innovation Consortium
|Pennsylvania Trust
|Corporate Visions
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Anthem, Inc. [INDIANAPOLIS] announced that Gail K. Boudreaux has been named Chief Executive Officer and President and appointed to the Board of Directors. Joseph R. Swedish, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will serve as Executive Chairman of Anthem Board of Directors, stepping down in May 2018, and serve as Senior Advisor through May 2020. Boudreaux recently served as Chief Executive Officer at United Healthcare. Prior to United Healthcare, Boudreaux served as Executive Vice President of Health Care Services Corporation. She began her career in Aetna's Management Development Program, serving in a variety of capacities over the course of two decades.
SGD Holdings, Ltd. [PUEBLO, CO] (OTC PINK: SGDH) announced that Harry Johansing stepped down as Chief Executive Officer, Director, and Secretary of SGD Holdings, Ltd. Current member of the Board of Directors, Delmar Janovec has been appointed as the new CEO and Secretary. Harry Johansing will remain President of Eco Paper, Inc.
Cardinal Health [DUBLIN, Ohio] (NYSE: CAH) announced that it has named Mike Kaufmann, its current chief financial officer, to serve as the company's next chief executive officer and join the board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Kaufmann will succeed George Barrett, Cardinal Health's chairman and chief executive officer since 2009, who will continue to serve as executive chairman of the board of directors. Mike Kaufmann joined Cardinal Health in 1990 and has served as chief financial officer of the company since 2014. During his 27 years at Cardinal Health, Kaufmann has served in a wide range of leadership positions across operations, sales and finance roles touching all areas of Cardinal Health. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors for MSC Industrial Supply and on the executive board of Red Oak Sourcing. Prior to Cardinal Health, Kaufmann had a successful career in audit and consulting with Arthur Andersen.
Sunoco LP [DALLAS] (NYSE: SUN) announced that Joseph Kim has been named chief executive officer of Sunoco LP, effective January 1, 2018. Kim has been serving as president and chief operating officer. Current Chief Executive Officer, Robert Owens will retire from the Partnership on December 31, 2017 and will continue to serve as a consultant to the Partnership through 2019. Prior to his most recent appointment, Kim had been serving as executive vice president and chief development officer for Sunoco from October 2015 to June 2017. Previously, Kim held the position of chief operating officer at Pizza Hut. Prior to that, he worked for fifteen years at Valero Energy, where his most recent position was senior vice president of strategy and growth. He also held roles in field and franchise operations, strategic planning, merchandising, development and investor relations. He began his career with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting.
Hoag Orthopedic Institute [IRVINE, Calif.] has announced the appointment of Jennifer Mitzner to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Mitzner will succeed Carlos Prietto, Interim CEO. Mitzner most recently served as the Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of St. Joseph Hoag Health. Previously, she served as the Senior Vice President Corporate Services & CFO at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian. Prior to her Hoag positions, Mitzner worked with KPMG in the firm's Healthcare Advisory Practice.
Leafly [SEATTLE] announced that Chris Jeffery has been appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Leafly, Jeffery co-founded OrderUp.
West Corporation [OMAHA] announced the appointment of John Shlonsky as chief executive officer and director of West. Shlonsky succeeds Thomas Barker who will retire. He will continue to consult for West. Most recently, Shlonsky was senior executive vice president of TSYS and president of TSYS' Merchant Services segment. Shlonsky served at TransFirst, where he was chief executive officer and president from 2006 to 2015. Prior to joining TransFirst, Shlonsky spent 11 years at First Data Corporation in various senior management positions including president of Merchant Services and has also served in financial management roles within Smith Barney, Chadbourne & Parke and Grumman Data Systems.
Tampa Electric [HALIFAX, Nova Scotia and TAMPA, Fla.] (TSX: EMA) announced that Nancy Tower will become the President and Chief Executive Officer of the company upon Gordon Gillette's retirement. Most recently, she was Chief Corporate Development Officer (2014 – present) for Emera. She previously served as CEO of Emera Newfoundland and Labrador (2011-2014) and Chief Financial Officer for Emera (2005-2011). She also held several operations positions at Nova Scotia Power, including Vice President of Customer Operations. She also held a management position at Tufts Cove Generating Station. She also serves on the Advisory Council of the Dalhousie University Corporate Residency MBA Program, as well as the Dalhousie University Faculty of Management Advisory Board. She is a past member of the board of directors of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, the board of directors of Nova Scotia Business Inc., the board of trustees of the QEII Foundation, and the board of directors of CAA Atlantic. Tower is also the former chair of the Nova Scotia Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Morilee by Madeline Gardner [NEW YORK] announced that Deborah Fine has been named Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Fine served as the CEO of Direct Brands, President of iVilliage, CEO of Victoria's Secret Pink, Founder and President of Avon Mark Cosmetics, Vice President and Publisher of Glamour and Publisher of Brides.
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA) [HOUSTON] (NYSE: PAA) announced that Greg Armstrong will retire as Chief Executive Officer at the end of 2018. Willie Chiang, PAA's current Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer – U.S., will become CEO upon Armstrong's retirement and Armstrong will continue as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors through December 2019, at which time he will retire from the Board. Chiang joined PAA in 2015 as PAA's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer – U.S., and was appointed to the Board of Directors in February 2017. Prior to joining PAA, Chiang held the positions of Executive Vice President, Operations at Occidental Petroleum, and Senior Vice President of Refining, Marketing, Transportation and Commercial for ConocoPhillips.
EP Energy Corporation [HOUSTON] (NYSE: EPE) announced that Russell Parker has assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of EP Energy Corporation and serves as a member of its Board of Directors. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer for Phoenix Natural Resources. Parker began his career at Platt, Sparks & Associates. In 2001, he joined Hilcorp Energy Company as a Reservoir Engineer and held a variety of roles working assets, corporate reserves and A&D as Reservoir Engineer. In 2012, Parker joined Chief Oil & Gas. After serving as VP of engineering and acquisitions and SVP of engineering and operations, Parker was later promoted to President.
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) [NEW YORK] (NYSE: AIG) announced the appointment of Lex Baugh as Chief Executive Officer, North America General Insurance and George Stratts as Chief Executive Officer of Lexington Insurance Company. Most recently, Baugh served as President of Liability and Financial Lines at AIG. Prior to that, he was President of Global Casualty at AIG. Baugh also served as Chief Risk Officer and Head of Strategic Planning for AIG Property Casualty, and previously as President and Chief Executive Officer of Chartis Europe Holdings Limited. Most recently, Stratts was President of AIG's Property and Special Risks division globally and prior to that, served as Executive Vice President of Lexington Insurance Company. Before joining AIG in 1999, Mr. Stratts held various positions in the property and marine businesses at Chubb for eight years.
Lacework [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.] announced the appointment of Stefan Dyckerhoff to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Dyckerhoff joins Lacework from Sutter Hill Ventures (SHV), where he remains a managing director. Prior to SHV, Dyckerhoff was Executive Vice President at Juniper Networks. Prior to Juniper Networks, he worked at Cisco Systems.
FULLBEAUTY Brands Inc. [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Emilie Arel as the Company's Chief Executive Officer. Arel succeeds Acting Chief Executive Officer and board member Seth Brody. From 2015 to 2017, she served as the CEO of Quidsi Inc. Before Quidsi, Arel from 2007 to 2014 held positions of increasing responsibility at Gap Inc., including serving as a division vice president and general manager at Old Navy. She previously held positions in inventory planning and strategy for Target Corporation from 2001 to 2007.
SMART Global Holdings, Inc. [NEWARK, CA] (NASDAQ: SGH) announced that Iain MacKenzie, SMART's Chief Executive Officer, has decided to transition to a revised role during the 2018 calendar year. MacKenzie will remain a member of SGH's board of directors following the transition.
DelMar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [VANCOUVER, British Columbia and MENLO PARK, Calif.] (NASDAQ: DMPI) announced the appointment of Saiid Zarrabian as interim Chief Executive Officer. Jeffrey Bacha, co-founder and CEO of DelMar, will continue in his senior management role as President and in the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer. Both Zarrabian and Bacha will continue to serve on the Company's Board of Directors. Saiid Zarrabian joined the DelMar Board of Directors in July, 2017. He is currently serving as an advisor to Redline Capital Partners, Zarrabian has previously served as Chairman and member of the board of directors of La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company. He also served as President of the Protein Production Division of Intrexon Corporation. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Cyntellect, Inc. He has previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Senomyx, Inc. and as Chief Operating Officer of Pharmacopeia, Inc., where he also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of its MSI Division. In addition, Zarrabian has served on numerous private and public company boards, including at Immune Therapeutics, Inc.; Exemplar Pharma, LLC; Ambit Biosciences Corporation; eMolecules, Inc.; and Penwest Pharmaceuticals CO.
OncoSec Medical Incorporated [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: ONCS) announced the appointment of Daniel J. O'Connor as CEO of the Company. O'Connor joined the Company's Board of Directors on September 2017. Punit Dhillon, co-founder of OncoSec, will continue to serve as the Company's President and a member of its Board of Directors. O'Connor has 20 years of executive, legal, and regulatory experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including CEO and other executive leadership positions at Advaxis, Inc., ImClone Systems, Bracco Diagnostics, Inc., and PharmaNet. Most recently, O'Connor was the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Advaxis, Inc. from 2013 until 2017. While at PharmaNet, O'Connor served as General Counsel.
EQIS Capital Management [SAN RAFAEL, CALIF.] has appointed Joseph F. Hunter as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Hunter's prior roles include: President, Financial Services International Corp; Senior Vice President, Broker Dealer Operations, Curian Capital; Senior Vice President, Correspondent Implementations, National Financial/Fidelity Investments; and Senior Vice President, Broker Dealer Operations Executive, Bank of America Investments.
Five9 Inc. [SAN RAMON, Calif.] (NASDAQ: FIVN) announced that Mike Burkland, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, will be transitioning from his roles as CEO and President to become Executive Chairman of the Board. The company has named Barry Zwarenstein, Five9's Chief Financial Officer, to the additional post of Interim CEO. Barry Zwarenstein has been Five9's Chief Financial Officer since January 2012. Barry was also CFO of Iomega Corporation and Mellanox Technologies. From November 2007 to October 2015, Barry served on the board of directors of Dealertrack Technologies, Inc.
Russel Metals Inc. [TORONTO] (TSX: RUS) announced that John G. Reid will succeed Brian R. Hedges as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 2, 2018. Reid began his career with JMS Metals Services in 1991 and was promoted to President of JMS in 1994. Russel Metals acquired JMS in 2007 and since then Reid has served as Vice President, Service Center Operations in 2009, Chief Operating Officer in 2013 and President in 2016.
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) [WASHINGTON] has selected John Hecklinger to serve as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. John comes to GFC after 12 years at GlobalGiving. He previously served as Global Giving's business development director.
Vividata [TORONTO] announced the appointment of Pat Pellegrini to the position of President and CEO. Pellegrini was most recently President and Chief Research Officer for Simmons Research, following his time with GfK North America as Executive Vice President, Media & Entertainment/Digital Market Intelligence. His most recent leadership role in Canada was Vice President, Content & Product Management for The Weather Network/MétéoMédia at Pelmorex Media. Before joining Pelmorex, he held an international research leadership position with comScore.
Sunverge Energy [SAN FRANCISCO] has appointed Martin Milani to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Milani succeeds Sunverge co-founder and CEO Ken Munson, who stepped down as president and CEO. Milani has served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Sunverge since December 2016. Prior to joining Sunverge, Milani was CTO and General Manager of Nexant. His previous positions include CTO of Tidal Software, CEO and CTO of Intersperse, CTO of iBuilding and Chief Internet Technologist at Times Mirror Corporation. Before joining Times Mirror, Milani held senior-level technology and management positions at Wells Fargo, IBM, Retix, and Locus Computing.
AdvantAge Ontario [Toronto, ON] announced the appointment of Lisa Levin as Chief Executive Officer, effective February 5, 2018. Levin was most recently the Director of Nursing and Health Policy with the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO). Before working at RNAO, Lisa was the Principal Consultant with Lisa Levin and Associates. From 2011 to 2016, Lisa was the Chair of the Ontario Caregiver Coalition. From 2005 to 2015, Lisa was a senior executive with Circle of Care. Prior to that, she was a policy advisor for 16 years in different ministries of the Ontario government.
Immunomedics, Inc. [MORRIS PLAINS, N.J.] (NASDAQ: IMMU) announced that it has appointed Michael Pehl as President and Chief Executive Officer. He has also been appointed to the Board. Michael Garone, current Chief Financial Officer and Interim CEO, will resume his role as CFO. Most recently, Pehl served as President, Hematology & Oncology, at Celgene Corporation. Prior to that, he was the company's Head of Global Marketing, Head of Hematology Europe and the first General Manager of Celgene in Germany. Over the course of his 11 years at Celgene, Pehl has launched multiple blockbuster drugs in the areas of hematology and oncology, including Revlimid, Pomalyst, and Abraxane.
SunCoke Energy Partners, GP, LLC [LISLE, Ill.] announced that Frederick A. Henderson has decided to retire as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, and that Michael G. Rippey has been appointed as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President. Rippey has also been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of SunCoke Energy, Inc. Most recently, he joins SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P. from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, where he has served as Senior Advisor since 2015. From 2014 to 2015, he served as Chairman of the Board of ArcelorMittal USA. From August 2006 through October 2014, he was ArcelorMittal USA's President and Chief Executive Officer.
Corizon Health [BRENTWOOD, Tenn.] announced the appointment of Stephen A. Rector as the company's Chief Executive Officer. He currently is transitioning from serving as a Division Vice President for Community Health Systems, Inc. Rector's prior experience includes serving as CEO of HCA's Regional Medical Center; CEO of South Bay Hospital; Chief Operating Officer of North Florida Regional Medical Center; and as Regional Director for LifePoint Hospitals. He began his career at Saint Thomas Health Services.
Ben Bridge Jeweler [SEATTLE] announced that Co-CEO and General Counsel Jonathan Bridge is retiring, and current President and Co-CEO, Edward Bridge will become Chairman and CEO.
State Street Corporation [BOSTON] (NYSE: STT) announced that Jay Hooley will retire as CEO by the end of 2018 and will remain as chairman throughout 2019. It has appointed Ron O'Hanley, previously vice chairman of State Street and president and CEO of State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), to president and chief operating officer. O'Hanley will succeed Hooley as CEO as well. Cyrus Taraporevala succeeds O'Hanley as president and CEO of State Street Global Advisors. Taraporevala joined SSGA in 2016 from Fidelity Investments. Prior to joining State Street in 2015, O'Hanley served as president of Asset Management & Corporate Services for Fidelity Investments. Before Fidelity, O'Hanley spent 13 years in leadership positions at Mellon Bank and Bank of New York Mellon including vice chairman of Mellon Financial Corporation and Bank of New York Mellon, and CEO of BNY Mellon Asset Management. O'Hanley began his career at McKinsey & Company, Inc. where he served as a partner and head of its Investment Management practice worldwide. In January 2017, O'Hanley was named vice chairman of State Street.
Custom Disability Solutions [SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine] announced that Mark P. Marsters has been named President and CEO. Most recently, Mark Marsters served as Senior Vice President of Operations at Cigna Group Insurance. Prior to Cigna, Marsters began his career with Union Mutual.
Xplore Technologies [AUSTIN, Texas] announced the resignation of Mark Holleran as President and Chief Executive Officer. The company also announced that Tom Wilkinson, CFO, has been appointed acting Chief Executive Officer. Wilkinson has been working with Xplore for over ten years, first as an auditor and business advisor, and most recently as CFO. Prior to joining Xplore in 2015, he served as Chief Financial Officer for Amherst Holdings and as Managing Partner of a regional public accounting and marketing firm. His prior experience also includes business development for a subsidiary of Credit Suisse First Boston, and work at both Dell and KPMG.
Aquent and Vitamin T [BOSTON, MA] are pleased to announce Doug Kaplan will be assuming the position of company CEO. Over the last 20 years, Kaplan has helped build leading software, media, and technology companies around the globe, including Ascend Learning and LexisNexis. John Chuang, who co-founded the company and served as CEO since its beginning, will remain as chairman of Aquent and CEO of TRI Ventures.
AdRoll [SAN FRANCISCO] announced that Toby Gabriner has been named CEO as a transition from his current role as President. Co-founder and current CEO Aaron Bell will step into the Chief Product Officer role. Gabriner brings nearly two decades of digital advertising expertise to the executive team at AdRoll including President of Carat Interactive, CEO of [x+1], and President and CEO of Adap.tv.
Panera Bread [ST. LOUIS] announced that Ron Shaich will step down as CEO effective Jan. 1, 2018. Blaine Hurst, Panera's president, will assume the position of CEO. Hurst joined Panera in January 2011 as Senior Vice President of Technology and Transformation. He was elected Executive Vice President of Technology and Transformation in May 2013, and EVP and Chief Transformation and Growth Officer in October 2014. Hurst was named President in December 2016. Earlier in his career, Hurst was Vice Chairman and President at Papa John's International Inc.; President – Restaurant Technology Solutions at eMac Digital LLC, Accel Partners and KKR & Co., and Vice President – Information Services at Boston Chicken.
Molson Coors Brewing Company [DENVER & MONTREAL] (NYSE: TAP; TSX: TPX) announced that Stewart Glendinning, President and CEO of Molson Coors International, will be leaving the company to pursue a new role as Global CFO of a leading multinational food company.
Northern Biologics Inc. [TORONTO] announced that Philip Vickers is joining the company as CEO and a member of the board. Stefan Larson, who served as Northern Biologics' founding CEO since 2014, will remain on the company's board. Most recently, he served as global head of R&D and a member of the Executive Committee for Shire. Prior to joining Shire, Vickers held a range of R&D positions of increasing responsibility at Merck & Co. Inc., Pfizer Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim and Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals Inc.
FastMed Urgent Care [PHOENIX] announced that Webster F. Golinkin has been appointed as its new CEO. Most recently, Golinkin served as CEO of RediClinic, which he co-founded in 2005. While at Rite Aid, Golinkin also served as CEO of Health Dialog and as a member of Rite Aid's senior management team. Golinkin also co-founded and served multiple times as president of the Convenient Care Association.
MemberSuite, Inc. [ATLANTA] announced it has named Natalie Cheney as its new CEO. She joined MemberSuite in 2013 as Chief Operating Officer and later in 2015 as Chief Revenue Officer.
The Medical Device Innovation Consortium [ARLINGTON, Va.] announced that CEO William V. Murray will step down as President & CEO effective February 2, 2018.
Pennsylvania Trust [RADNOR, Pa.] announced that Founder and CEO Richardson T. Merriman will step down and current President and Chief Investment Officer George C. McFarland will become CEO. Merriman will remain Chairman of The Pennsylvania Trust Company. In 1998, McFarland joined the firm as Director of Marketing and Business Development, following a successful 14-year career as an attorney. McFarland was appointed Executive Vice President and joined the firm's Board of Directors in 2011. In 2012, he was named President, and four years later he became Chief Investment Officer. In addition to his professional work, McFarland serves on the Board of Trustees at the Haverford School, Board of Directors for the Mann Center for Performing Arts and the Board of Trustees for the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia Foundation.
Corporate Visions [PLEASANTON, Calif.] has named Erik Peterson as its new Chief Executive Officer. He replaces Joe Terry. Peterson has been with the company for 12 years and has led both its global consulting and sales teams.
BraunAbility [WINAMAC, IND.] announced that Nick Gutwein, who has led BraunAbility since 2008, announced his retirement. It has selected Staci Kroon as the new President and CEO. She will also serve as a director for BraunAbility. Kroon comes to BraunAbility from Eaton Corporation. Most recently, Kroon was appointed Executive Vice President of Eaton Business Systems. She also held the position of President of Eaton's Automotive North America business.


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Electron microscopy image obtained of the written features (dark regions), fabricated using a scanning transmission electron microscope.
Electron-beam lithography (EBL) is a method of creating nanoscale patterns by exposing a resist to a focused source of electrons. We investigated the ultimate limits of EBL through the use of an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). Optimization of electron exposure and resist development demonstrated the ability to create features of 2 nm in size – roughly 10 atoms wide. This is the highest resolution ever achieved with this technique.
EBL has been used for the last 50 years as method to pattern nanoscale features and devices, and it continues to be broadly used in nanotechnology and industrial applications. It is essential to the field of nanotechnology for its sub-10-nm resolution, arbitrary patterning capabilities and fast prototyping. The practical resolution limit of current EBL methods is near 10 nm, but the future of research in nanotechnology increasingly requires top-down control at the few nanometer length scale. It is expected that the development of EBL methods at this length will impact a wide array of fields, including excitonics, plasmonics, nanoscale optics, molecular electronics, the placement of biomolecules and templated self-assembly.
Resolution Limits of Electron-Beam Lithography toward the Atomic Scale
Vitor Manfrinato,1 Lihua Zhang,2 Dong Su,2 Huigao Duan,3 Richard Hobbs,1 Eric Stach2 and Karl Berggren,1
Nano Letters ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/nl304715p (2013).
This material is based upon work supported as part of the Center for Excitonics, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001088. The STEM lithography work was carried out at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No DE-AC02-98CH10886.
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Black Church Leader: Civility in America at 'All-Time Low'
WASHINGTON -- A prominent black church leader believes that the level of civil discourse in our country regarding politics and faith is at an "all-time low."
The Rev. Franklyn Richardson, chair of the National Conference of Black Churches, made that assessment Thursday. He was one of several church leaders invited to an event on public discourse.
Richardson said that the key element of the low level of good discourse could be found with "articulated intolerance." He told CP that he felt in order to raise the level of civil discourse, the Church must "own its part" in creating the poor environment for civility.
"First of all, the Church must own its own contribution to this. The Church is not without accountability in this area," said Richardson. "The Church is not just a mere spectator of it, it was a participant. So the Church must own, we must own the ways in which we have been intolerant in our views."
Richardson's remarks came on a day when he was part of a day-long dialogue between church leaders of varying political backgrounds. Held at the Frederick Douglass Museum, the "Better Angels Dialogue" was sponsored by the Faith & Politics Institute.
Dr. Richard Land, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, was another attendee of the summit. Land told CP that he believed the state of civility in the United States was "pernicious and cancerous."
"It is up to us people of faith to try to lead by example and by exhortation to get people to elevate the discourse by understanding that we can disagree with everything somebody may say without attacking them as a person," said Land.
"For instance, I am strongly pro-life, but that does not give me liberty to hate people who are pro-choice or to attack them and their motives … I think that unfortunately we have gotten into a downward cycle and all sides deserve the blame."
Other leaders invited to the summit included the Rev. Canon Peg Chemberlin, immediate past president of the National Council of Churches; Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church; and Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, senior fellow at Beverly LaHaye Institute.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Crouse stated, "There is a general recognition that it's not just compromise for the sake of compromise but a matter of finding principles on which we can agree without discarding our own basic very deeply held beliefs and values."
Crouse believes that churches play a "pivotal role" in the effort to make public discourse on various issues more civil.
"So important that we have prophetic voices from the pulpit and that we have believers who are willing to really tackle the problems without resorting to clichés and without resorting to stereotypes and putting people into boxes," said Crouse.
"Christ commanded us to work together and to believe in each other and treat people as equals. That does not mean sacrificing your own beliefs but it does mean standing up for truth and standing up for basic principles of faith."


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Learning as Intellectual Empowerment
Now more than ever, modern teaching has to find the secret of the cognitive economy that will permit the reconciliation of the ever-increasing mass of knowledge with the limited cognitive abilities of individuals, and of the training needs of highly specialized experts with requirements for high level, general understanding. We put forward elements towards a solution, starting from the question of what the notion of a "well-made head" might signify today. The hypothesis developed is that training the mind in any given field involves an understanding of the concepts and key ideas that form the basic structure of that field.
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Gabor Lanzarote black sandals are a comfortable and stylish option for keeping your feet fresh and cool during spring and summer. A Stylish leather upper complete with leather lining, easy to slip on whilst the toe loop ensures the sandals stay securely on your foot.
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Now, still as a family-run business and in its second generation, Gabor shoes can be found all over the world and are renowned for their comfort as well as high quality materials. While the brand is steeped in tradition, in recent years they have and taken in new technologies and styles, such as the fashion-focussed Gabor handbags, to make sure that everybody can enjoy Gabor footwear.
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May 3, 2011
The Orlando Sentinel has reported that "The Associated Press and a number of non-local news organizations have appealed Chief Judge Belvin Perry's order governing pre-notification of the jury selection venue in the Casey Anthony trial.The appeal is significant because it could lead to a delay in the start of the high-profile murder trial's jury selection, which is scheduled to commence Monday morning.
Let's hope the judges on the appellate court make a quick decision tomorrow!
Yesterday's hearing focused on one motion, and one motion only. It was the Emergency Motion To Intervene filed by the media, namely, WOFL FOX 35, WKMG, WPTV, WFTS, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspaper, CF News 13, and the AP.
The point of contention is the Confidentiality Agreement that media organizations must sign in order to find out the venue ahead of time.
Attorney Judith Mercier, representing the media, made her arguments to Judge Perry. She was citing the first amendment rights of the media to free and unfettered information available under the Florida "Sunshine" laws.
It was obvious from the get-go that Judge Perry was not in a good mood. He peppered her arguments against prior restraint with such questions as:
"How many capital cases have you tried?" (None)
"How many capital jury cases have you attempted to select a jury in?" (None)
He asked her to name any case with more media attention than this one? (Mercier couldn't, although she did remember they were in other cities.)
When asked by Perry if she could provide a way that the pre-trial publicity could be counter-acted, Mercier replied that extensive juror voir-dire would do the trick.
When asked for another remedy, Mercier mentioned a continuance of the trial. A six-month "cooling off period" would wipe the memories of the case from people's minds.
Judge Perry reminded her that memories don't age as well as fine wine and that Casey Anthony was indicted in October, 2008. In addition, should a witness die, their deposition would not be used at trial time.
When asked for a third remedy, Ms. Mercier went back to voire-dire.
This presentation by Ms. Mercier was very contentious and Judge Perry asked some terrific questions. It is something that has to be seen to be appreciated.
It is fascinating that an attorney representing the media can't answer what a legal analyst role is for the station she is representing!
When the argument for the motion ended, Judge Perry asked Jose Baez if he agreed with the motion. Baez said, "no." He then asked Baez to explain why he had asked for a change of venue and the research he had conducted.
The second part of the hearing was mainly an extensive speech by Perry prior to denying the motion. It is an eloquent explanation of the current media situation. There are no longer just newspapers and television stations. There is the internet, which spreads knowledge at lightning speed. Again, it is well worth listening to. It begins at approximately 19 minutes into Part 2 of the hearing.
If you didn't watch the hearing live, it is a complete summary of the problems he has faced in finding a fair and impartial jury so that Casey Anthony can have a fair trial. His key point was that he wanted to keep the location secret until the potential jurors were in the courthouse and had been instructed to not follow the media or go on the internet about the case.
He said that he was not denying the public the information that they craved. The jury selection will be televised live from moment one. InSession has agreed to sign the confidentiality agreement and will be set to broadcast. WFTV has also signed the agreement, so we know Kathi Belich will be there. The Orlando Sentinel has not signed the agreement but did not join in the motion. In my opinion, those stations that do not want to sign the agreement won't miss a moment of coverage. WFOL35 and WKMG will be streaming the trial live and their reporters can easily tune in on their laptops while making the one to one-and-a-half hour drive to the courthouse in question.
This judge, who has consistently ruled in favor of the media in their motions, as well as Judge Strickland (who only denied the release the jail video) have been fair. Now, Judge Perry had to balance out the situation. He had to weigh the first amendment rights of the media against Casey Anthony's sixth amendment rights to a fair trial. Today, the scales weighed in for Ms. Anthony.
In the judge's own words, "The news coverage of this case has been unprecedented in the history of Florida and maybe even dwarfs the coverage that was given to O.J. Simpson."
What I find interesting is that most talking heads and legal analysts in this case have agreed with the judge. I watched it on InSession on through the evening program. Here are two of the comments that appeared online.
Bill Sheaffer (WFTV): "I don't believe an appeal would be successful."
Retired Judge O.H. Eaton, who is WESH's legal analyst, said the conditions of Perry's confidentiality agreement sound fair. Eaton predicted that Perry's decision won't be overturned and there won't be a delay in the trial.
One of the most interesting aspects of the hearing was that nobody appeared to be happy. There were no smiles or smirks from Casey or Jose Baez. In fact, they listened to the back-and-forth between Judge Perry and Ms. Mercier with rather gloomy countenances. However, when the judge made his statement prior to denying the motion, Casey Anthony and her mother Cindy became visibly upset. Some people believe that Casey was crying real tears this time (I didn't see any.). It should be noted that Casey had a meltdown when the judge mentioned the difficulty of finding an unbiased jury.
I have no way to fathom what goes on in someone's mind, but there must have been something bothering everybody that day.
Perhaps I can understand Judge Perry's apparent short temper. He made it clear that he had more important issues, such as the LAST motion to deal with. He even tossed the offending motion and memorandum on the bench to prove his point.
I would love to hear your opinions as to why Casey had a meltdown and why Cindy looked very shaken up.
Also, what was Jose Baez thinking?
Watch The Hearing
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I wish Sheena Easton would sit McG down and explain time travel to him. In this terrible Outer Limits episode, she understands perfectly that when someone traveled back and changed her future, it created an alternate universe... of adult-contemporary music.
In the episode "Fallen Star," Easton plays a washed-up rock star who used to play in front of 80,000 people, and now she plays to small nightclub crowds. She's about to kill herself, when a mega-fan from the future travels back to stop her. It turns out that in the future, not only have they discovered time travel (by inhabiting the bodies of people in the past) but they've also ruined music. Everybody just listens to cookie-cutter bland music — not the vibrant adult-contemporary "quiet storm" slow jams that Ms. Easton belts out. It's a tragedy.
But by preventing Easton from killing herself, the time-traveling fan totally changes the future — it's now a better world for your great-grandchildren to grow up in, because everybody's listening to songs like the one you can hear Easton singing at the end of the above clip. Easton's character still has to die, of course, but luckily her backup singer randomly dies and they're able to transfer Easton's consciousness into the backup singer's body — so she can inspire the world, with lyrics like, "I'm growing stronger/Like a flower in the rain/I can feel the power/I can see the light/I can hear my heart telling me/It's going to be all right."


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Ohio Department of Transportation officials say the state has 5,300 hillside areas at risk of sending rocks onto nearby highways and spends $16 million a year preventing or cleaning up slides.
A department spokesman says all 88 counties have such areas. Crews are working in eight counties to stabilize hillsides or clean up after falls, and 37 summer projects are planned.
State engineer Jim Graham says hillsides were made steeper for roadways along Ohio rivers. Rock cracks fill with rainwater that freezes and melts, making it vulnerable.
Fixes include concrete barriers and roadside ditches to catch rock and road closures.
Slides gained attention last week in Athens when a sliding boulder weighing roughly 100 tons crushed a car and damaged a home, utility poles, and a water line.


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Summer researcher from Breck School places second in international science fair
Success often comes after repeated failure. That's one of the key messages learned by a young scientist who worked with an Augsburg physics professor to place at the largest international science fair.
Taylor McCanna, a 2012 graduate of Breck School in Minneapolis, worked last summer with David Murr, an Augsburg physics professor, on a high altitude weather ballooning project. She was challenged to design, build, and test easily affordable equipment that ultimately could be built by other students and even the general public.
"Dr. Murr initially gave me projects and experiments that he knew would not work out," McCanna said. "It was frustrating."
It took six prototypes before McCanna created a device that could measure the global electric circuit. The "field mill" she built was attached to a high-altitude weather balloon and sent into the atmosphere to gather the data that could be an indicator of global climate change.
"Essentially, Taylor and other students are working to find a way to 'crowd source' research," Murr said. "These low-cost and easy-to-build field mills make it possible for other high school students—and the public—to contribute to important scientific research."
Murr said that McCanna's field mill means scientists might not need to spend thousands of dollars to gather reliable data. Instead, an enthusiastic public can be invited to spend a couple of hundred dollars to make field mills for balloon launches and then can gather and add data to the international body of knowledge.
McCanna's efforts earned her second grand prize in electrical and mechanical engineering at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which brings together 1,500 scientists in grades 9-12 from 70 countries.
"This fair is the premiere science competition in the world exclusively for high school students," said Lois Fruen, McCanna's adviser and a teacher at Breck who has been honored as one of the country's outstanding high school science teachers.
McCanna believes the mentoring she received from Murr will put her ahead of her peers at Purdue University, where next fall she will begin studying astronautical and aeronautical engineering.
"The tasks and failures I experienced with Dr. Murr built my creativity, thought processes, and innovation," McCanna said. "He inspired me to keep improving. He also prepared me to talk with experts in the field, to have intellectual conversations about my work, and to develop my presentation, technical, and critical thinking skills."
Murr said that McCanna's experience at Augsburg, where she had chances to interact with undergraduate researchers across many disciplines, helped her learn to easily explain her project to people from all walks of life.
"Taylor is comfortable talking to diverse audiences and can accurately describe her research to scientists in and outside her discipline, as well as to non-scientists," Murr said. "This is a critical skill for any scientist so that we can ignite the curiosity of the general public and garner support for pursuit of the sciences."
Fruen said the Augsburg environment helped propel McCanna forward, and has other students at Breck.
"Dr. Murr treated Taylor like a graduate student, allowing her to find her way with just the right amount of guidance," Fruen said.
In addition, Fruen said that McCanna presented to sixth- and ninth-grade science classes at Breck, helping ignite the curiosity of young students. McCanna also presented at a formal seminar to the Breck science department, mentors, school administration, and others.
McCanna's success sparked interest in two more Breck students who now are researching with Murr and Ben Stottrup, associate professor of physics at Augsburg College. These students are interacting—as McCanna did—with researchers in Augsburg's Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunities (URGO) program, a 10-week summer research program that crosses many disciplines.
Augsburg's connection to the science program at Breck School dates back to mid-1980s when now Emeritus Professor Arlin Gyberg helped set up Breck's Advanced Placement Chemistry program.
Murr is a 1992 graduate of Augsburg College. He spent two years in Tanzania with the Peace Corps and completed graduate studies at Boston University and post-doctoral work at Dartmouth College. He also spent a year working in space policy with the U.S. State Department.
In addition to her placement at ISEF, McCanna's project earned awards for the Twin Cities Regional Science Fair Award for Excellence (and was selected as one of the top three projects in her division), the American Council of Engineering Companies Grand Award, the Minnesota Astronomical Society Award, the U.S. Army Award, the U.S. Air Force Award, the U.S. Navy Award, and the National Society for Professional Engineers Award at the Minnesota state science fair. She also was picked to present her work at the Tri-state Junior Science and Humanities Symposium and was a finalist in the Young Naturalist Awards contest, a national competition sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History.
TOP PHOTO: Taylor McCanna works in the Augsburg College labs. She developed six prototypes of a field mill before creating a device that could measure the global electric circuit.
BOTTOM PHOTO: Taylor McCanna, third from left, is shown with other finalists at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). McCanna recently graduated from Breck School in Minneapolis, and in the fall will study at Purdue University.


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Besides weighing the police evidence and arguments against it, many factors complicate the Godhra issue. This is the third and final part of the series on the Politics of Evidence.
Part I: The Politics of Evidence
Part II: Questions about the Godhra case
When Godhra happened, Kandarp Trivedi was a police inspector from Godhra town, under whom Signal Falia, near the Godhra railway station, falls. He told rediff.com February 28, 2002, "We never go to Signal Falia. We don't police that area. It's full of rogue elements."
Trivedi told this correspondent that the Ghanchis (a largely uneducated and poor community) of Signal Falia have close knit relations with their relatives in Pakistan and they prefer products from Pakistan. Their children, he said, like toothpaste from Pakistan.
The Signal Falia area, from where a crowd had come and gheraoed the S-6 compartment, was 'outlawed' for the local police. On the night of February 27, 2002, instead of conducting a professional investigation, the local police team picked up whoever they could and put them behind bars. The local police did not have a network at Signal Falia to get reliable human intelligence.
The first eight to 10 weeks of investigations in the Godhra case were shoddy and unpardonable.
P P Agza, who was inspector general of police, crime, and K C Bawa, deputy superintendent of police, did not conduct a thorough investigation, probably as they were due for retirement. Bawa was reportedly under pressure with a proposed departmental inquiry into his alleged investments.
Junior police officers, to please their political masters, kept on increasing the 'statistics of arrested Muslims' in the case. Reporters were witness to the Godhra police February 28 and 29, 2002, picking up 'miscreants' from Signal Falia.
Bawa's testimony before the Nanavati Commission exposed the shortcomings of his team's initial investigation.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the much-hailed and much-maligned hero of Hindutva, did not ensure that a swift and efficient investigation.
His Home Minister Gordhanbhai Zadaphia, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad activist, was overwhelmed by the event and proved to be a disaster as the riots spread.
He and Ashok Bhatt, then the health minister, kept 'ordering' the police to arrest more Muslims from Signal Falia. They told the police to 'show quick results' to send the politically correct message to Hindus.
Under the circumstances, many Muslims arrested in the early days of the investigation were probably not involved in the conspiracy.
A police officer had told me in Godhra, "They (petty criminals of Signal Falia, who were part of the mob) will be released once charges are framed."
Those days, the atmosphere in Gujarat was so communally charged and divisive that even the release of innocent Muslims would have invited popular wrath.
Most of the accused, in jail under POTA, were part of the crowd who rushed towards the Godhra station on hearing a rumour of the kidnapping of Muslim girls by kar sevaks. They should have been tried for unlawful assembly or rioting.
Most of the 50 Muslims who were arrested in the first round have been made part of a larger conspiracy, which is unfair to them.
It is a tragedy of the Godhra trial that the Muslims who may have been part of the mob (in the days to follow, more than 1.2 million Hindus were part of mobs when the riots broke out) but not part of the greater conspiracy of the carnage are facing POTA charges.
Gujarat's police and politicians are aware of the injustice but they want the POTA court to release them only after framing charges in the Godhra case.
The investigators know that except for about 30 Muslim accused, who form the core group and who allegedly planned the torching of the compartment, the others are not 'conspirators' but merely 'miscreants.'
Modi does not have the political guts to admit it as he can gain political mileage out of his Hindutva image, with the prosecution not taking a stand to segregate the accused of Godhra.
If the POTA charges are dropped against some of the arrested Muslims, who are 'on record,' shown merely 'as present in the mob,' 70 percent of the arrested will be out of POTA's ambit. They would have got bail a long time ago under normal criminal law.
Before a stay on the Godhra trial was imposed by the Supreme Court, a senior police officer said, "When the charges are framed by the POTA court, the accused (more than 70) will get a reprieve."
Judge Sonia Gokani began the framing of charges in the POTA court in Ahmedabad. The accused, suffering because of the complicated process of POTA, would have been set free. But a petition by social activists, and another by the National Human Rights Commission to transfer the Godhra trial case outside Gujarat, led to a stay on the trial.
The stay delayed their bail process.
Firoz Khan Pathan, an accused, was 'merely part of the mob.' Today, his mother and wife beg on the streets of Kalol, where they have been relocated from Godhra.
Fakhruddin, another accused, who was 'merely part of the mob,' according to a police charge sheet, died in prison.
The conspiracy theory in the current form came only after Deputy Inspector General of Police Rakesh Asthana's arrival.
On April 11, 2002, Asthana took over the investigation. Noel Parmar was his deputy. Asthana's team went through the evidence collected from the site.
He reordered examination of the Forensic Science Laboratory (Ahmedabad) report. They conducted a simulation exercise in Godhra. They reported that the S-6 compartment was burned from inside and more than 60 liters of petrol were used.
Simultaneously, Asthana conducted the 'mapping of time' of the Sabarmati train. He reenacted the event to note the timing of the train's speed after it left the platform and was forcibly stopped near cabin A.
When the chain was pulled, in the manner described by witnesses, the train stopped at cabin A, where it was burned on February 27, 2002.
As Asthana got deeper into the conspiracy theory, it became obvious his predecessors goofed up or had not acted professionally.
Another aspect that cannot be ignored is then railway minister Nitish Kumar's role.
The Justice (retired) U C Bannerji report mentions a failure by the Commission of Railway Safety and Railway Administration to conduct a statutory inquiry into the incident.
Nitish Kumar has probably followed the blind path, or taken a convenient route, with the views of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders of the then National Democratic Alliance government.
The Gujarat government had declared the setting up of the commission six days after the incident. The Railways could have done a quick, primary survey.
How did the Railways, a commercial enterprise, not have learned a lesson on the safety of its trains after such carnage?
One explanation is that the Railways Act makes an inquiry mandatory when an accident occurs. But here, they prejudged the issue on the very first day and took a position that the fire in the S-6 compartment was anything but an accident.
Initially, in the Railways official papers, they termed it as an activity by miscreants, without conducting an inquiry.
Nitish Kumar takes refuge under Section 119 of the Railways Act. The section says that once a commission is announced under the Commission of Inquiry Act, no departmental inquiry can be held by the railway ministry and any ongoing inquiry should be discontinued.
Legal opinion is divided whether the Bannerji Committee has legal sanction.
It is Asthana's investigation that the Gujarat government is sticking to. In view of the reality, has any Railway official or police officer been held responsible for the sloppy police investigation in the initial few weeks?
Why has a professional review of the arrested people -- on the basis of the initial theory of investigation -- not been done?
The Godhra investigation also comes under a cloud because of the complete lack of motivation of the Gujarat police to investigate with the same vigor cases of Naroda Patia, Best Bakery or Gulmurg Society.


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New Year Is a Journey We Face With God's Grace, Pope Says
During the first Angelus of 2013, the Holy Father asked Mary to bless the world 'like a mother blesses her children who must leave on a trip.'
VATICAN CITY — During the first Angelus of 2013, Pope Benedict XVI asked Mary to bless the world "like a mother blesses her children who must leave on a trip," since "a new year is like a journey" which we must face "with the light and grace of God."
Pope Benedict's full Angelus address follows:
Dear brothers and sisters,
Happy New Year to all! On this first day of 2013, I would like God's blessing to be extended to every man and every woman in the world. I do this with the ancient formula contained in sacred Scripture: "The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon thee and show thee mercy. The Lord turn his face to you and give you peace" (Numbers 6:24-26).
Such as light and heat from the sun are a blessing to the earth, so the light of God is for humanity, when he shines his face upon it. This happened with the birth of Jesus Christ. God hath shown us the brilliance of his face: at the beginning in a very humble, hidden way — in Bethlehem, only Mary and Joseph and some shepherds were witnesses to this revelation — but little by little, like the sun from dawn comes to noon, the light of Christ has grown and spread everywhere. Even in the short time of his earthly life, Jesus of Nazareth made the face of God shine in the Holy Land, and then, through the Church animated by his Spirit, extended to all peoples the Gospel of peace. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests" (Luke 2:14). This is the song of the angels at Christmas and the song of the Christians in every clime, a song from the hearts and lips which passes into concrete actions, actions of love that build dialogue, understanding and reconciliation.
For this, eight days after Christmas, when the Church, like the Virgin Mother Mary, shows the world the Infant Jesus, the Prince of Peace, we celebrate the World Day of Peace. Yes, that Child, who is the Word of God made flesh, came to give men a peace which the world cannot give (John 14:27). His mission is to break down the "dividing wall of hostility" (Ephesians 2:14). And when, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, he proclaims his beatitudes, among them there is also "blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9).
Who are the peacemakers? They are all those who, day by day, try to overcome evil with good, with the power of truth, with the weapons of prayer and forgiveness, with honest and well-done work, with scientific research at the service of life, with the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. The peacemakers are many, but they are not loud. As leaven in dough, they raise humanity according to God's plan.
In this first Angelus of the new year, we ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, to bless us, like a mother blesses her children who must leave on a trip. A new year is like a journey: With the light and grace of God, may it be a path to peace for every person and every family, for each country and for the whole world.


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No. 13 Illinois tops No. 10 Gonzaga
Illinois ends Gonzaga's 17-game home winning streak
SPOKANE, Wash. — No. 14 Illinois 85, No. 10 Gonzaga 74: Brandon Paul scored a season-high 35 points, including five 3-pointers, as the Illini remained unbeaten by ending the Bulldogs' 17-game home winning streak.
Paul's three-point play put the Illini ahead 78-71 with 2:29 remaining, and Tracy Abrams followed by hitting two free throws to extend the lead to nine. Abrams had 14 points and D.J. Richardson added 11 for the Illini, who won their third straight against Gonzaga.
Kelly Olynyk paced the Bulldogs (9-1) with 16 points and eight rebounds and Elias Harris had 15 points and seven boards. Gonzaga lost for just the eighth time in 118 games at the McCarthey Athletic Center.
Paul was 10-for-16 shooting, including 5-for-9 from 3-point range and 10-for-11 from the foul line, and came within eight points of his career high of 43 set against Ohio State on Jan. 10, 2012. Paul added four rebounds and three assists.
Gary Bell, Jr. and Kevin Pangos combined for 22 points on 6-for-20 shooting for Gonzaga, which held a 27-24 rebounding edge. The Bulldogs shot 27.8 percent (5-of-18) from 3-point range, compared to 42.3 percent (11-of-26) for Illinois.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Bulldogs have dropped five straight home games against ranked, non-conference opponents dating to Dec. 9, 2006. … Gonzaga shot 61 percent in the first half, which ended with the teams tied at 41 …Illinois big men Nnanna Egwu and Tyler Griffey fouled out.


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- Krista's Paper Cafe on January 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM said...
The rabbit is so cute. I like the different "shaped" card. Wonderful colors.
The mouse card is cute as well. I like all the layering.
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The KVT (Kubota Variable Transmission) features a continuously variable transmission that offers an infinite number of forward and reverse speeds. This enables the M7 Premium KVT to operate at maximum efficiency at precisely the desired speed for the application.
Optional Creeper (Standard, Premium)
Some jobs can't be done properly at typical working speeds. That's why the M7 gives you 16 forward and 16 reverse creep speeds to let you do those jobs at extremely slow working speeds.
Optional 50K Speed (Premium and Premium KVT)
In addition to standard 40kph traveling speed (25mph), 50kph (31mph) is also available on both KVT and Powershift transmissions.
EZ-Command Center (Premium, Premium KVT)
To let you get more work done in less time and with less effort, Kubota has developed a unique multi-function operating lever and arm rest that puts most of the M7's major functions on a single easy-to-use control console. Your right hand is always on the lever, leaving your left hand free for steering. Tractor operations couldn't be simpler or more convenient.
Premium, Premium KVT
The M7 premium model offers premium hydraulics, such as a CCLS and a variable flow rate that can handle a variety of functions at the same time, a 29 GPM independent PFC pump, and electronic auxiliary control with four standard auxiliary control valves and the option of five valves.
Standard Model
The M7 standard model is ready to go to work with Pressure Compensated, Fixed Displacement hydraulics, a 21 GPM gear type pump and mechanical auxiliary control with three auxiliary control valves as standard equipment and the option of adding a fourth auxiliary control valve.
110 inch Long Bar Axle (Premium, Premium KVT)
Bar axle provides the ability to achieve proper row spacing and installing dual rear wheels.
Kubota's 4-speed live-independent PTO gives you the ability to operate a variety of rear-mounted implements at the optimum speed for each. The independent PTO can be engaged and disengaged without stopping the tractor using a single control knob with automatic modulation for smooth engagement.
Auto PTO on/off With 3-Point Hitch Position (Premium, Premium KVT)
You will appreciate the convenience and precision Auto PTO provides when turning at the end of a row. Auto PTO automatically disengages the PTO when the linkage is raised, and then re-engages when the linkage is lowered.
K-Monitor Pro (Premium, Premium KVT)
Most of the M7's functions are conveniently displayed on a single large LCD touch screen and can be adjusted and set with simple touches of a finger. The four main functions-Tractor Control, ISO-BUS connector-compatible implement control, GPS-compatible auto-guidance, and camera monitor-are always displayed on the user-friendly panel, simplifying their adjustment and monitoring. You can even edit the displayed information to show only what you want to see.
ISO-BUS Connector-Compatible
Out of the box, the M7 Premium models can handle any ISO-BUS connector-compatible implements. Simply attach the implement to the universal plug, and information about the implement is instantly displayed on the LCD monitor for adjustment and control. For ISO-BUS compatible implements, you won't need to install a control box, special monitor, extension, power source, or wiring.
Kubota Headland Control (Premium, Premium KVT)
The M7 Headland Management System, Kubota Headland Control, works with ISO-BUS compatible implements to provide customizable programs of fully automated operations. For example, when the end of a row is reached, the operator can simply press a button to start a sequence of operations to automatically stop the implement, lift it, and lower it at the completion of the turn. The Headland Management System frees the operator to concentrate on maneuvering and helps ensure more precise turns and greater work efficiency. Different programs are available for different tasks, and each can be customized and retained in memory to suit special needs.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas woman was sentenced to 80 years Tuesday for her felony murder conviction in the death of one of four children killed in a fire at her home day care in Houston.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas woman was sentenced to 80 years Tuesday for her felony murder conviction in the death of one of four children killed in a fire at her home day care in Houston.
Jessica Tata, 24, was convicted last week in connection with the death of 16-month-old Elias Castillo. Authorities say Elias was one of seven children whom Tata left unsupervised at her home while she went to a nearby Target store. Prosecutors say she left a pan of oil cooking atop a stovetop burner and that this ignited the February 2011 blaze. Three other children were seriously injured.
Along with the prison sentence, Tata was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. She will have to serve 30 years of her sentence before she is eligible for parole, prosecutor Steve Baldassano said.
"Nobody wins in this situation," said Patty Sparks, Elias' great-grandmother, after the sentence was announced. "My heart goes out to the Tata family and those precious mothers and fathers who lost their babies."
Tata could have received up to life in prison.
She still faces three more counts of felony murder in relation to the other children who died, and three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child in relation to three who were hurt. Baldassano said prosecutors planned to pursue trials on the remaining felony murder charges.
During the punishment phase of the trial, prosecutors argued Tata was an irresponsible day care owner who left the children she was caring for alone on multiple occasions and who ran an unclean facility. Tata's family and friends told jurors she was a good person who loved kids. They asked the jury for mercy.
Tata's attorneys argued she never intended to hurt the children, who ranged in age from 16 months to 3 years old, and that she tried to save them. But prosecutors did not need to show she intended to harm the children, only that the deaths occurred because she put them in danger by leaving them alone. Under Texas law, a person can be convicted of felony murder if he or she committed an underlying felony and that action led to the death.
"It's tough because the verdict doesn't undo things, but I think (the families of the victims) feel as if the jury listened to them and justice was done for their children," Baldassano said afterward.
One of the surviving children, Makayla Dickerson, stood next to Baldassano as he spoke. She showed reporters scars the fire left on her right forearm.
Baldassano also offered sympathy for Tata's relatives, some of whom attended the trial.
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You cannot install the FRITZ!Box USB Remote Connection software by clicking the "USB Remote Connection software" link in the FRITZ!Box user interface.
- The web browser settings are preventing the pop-up window for installing the software from opening automatically.
Adjusting the web browser settings
Configure an exception for the FRITZ!Box in the web browser's pop-up blocker:
- Google Chrome
- Click the (Customize and control Google Chrome) button on the top right of Chrome.
- Click "Settings" and then "Extensions".
- Click "Options" for the pop-up blocker you are using.
- Enter fritz.box as an exception and close the "Extensions" window.
- Mozilla Firefox
- Click the (Open menu) button on the top right of Firefox.
- Click "Options".
- Click "Privacy & Security" in the menu on the top left of the screen.
- In the "Permissions" section, click the "Exceptions" button next to the option "Block pop-up windows".
- Enter fritz.box under "Address of website".
- Click "Allow" and then "Save changes".
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Click the (Tools) button on the top right of the Internet Explorer.
- Click "Pop-up Blocker" and then "Pop-up Blocker Settings".
- Enter fritz.box under "Address of website to allow".
- Click "Add" and then "Close".
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